Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Miguel de Cervantes

• Virtue
• Envy
• Generosity
• Meanness

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• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

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• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

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• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

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• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

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• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
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• I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
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• In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Space
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  • Italy

• I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Political
  • Events
  • Meet

• The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Yourself

• Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

  

  Samantha Mathis
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• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
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• We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
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• We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Could
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• Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

  

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• There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
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• I stick with what I know, makeup-wise.

  

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• Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Army
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  • Employers

• Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Woman
  • Ignorance
  • Virtue

• Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Virtue
  • Envy
  • Generosity